Iain Docherty is a Research Fellow in the Department of
Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow and an expert in urban
governance, particularly the implementation of planning and
transport policies. His previous publications include Making
Tracks (1999), which looks at the transport planning system in
major British cities.

Jon Shaw is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and
Environment at the University of Aberdeen. His recent work has
examined the privatization of British Rail and road building in
England. He is the author of Competition, Regulation and the
Privatisation of British Rail (2000) and co-editor of All
Change: British Railway Privatisation (2000).

"should be on every consultant’s, politician’s and
planner’s desk and in the library of every institution where
transport is seriously studied" (Logistic and Transport
Focus, March 2004)

"This book outlines the political and implementation questions
relating to transport policy delivery in the UK. Despite good
intentions and a radical policy agenda this book reveals the Labour
Government has failed to reduce the need to travel and to improve
travel choice. Society has become more car dependent, levels of
congestion and unreliability have increased, and the goal of
sustainable transport has disappeared. The contributors to this
book systematically document and assess the record of the
Government on transport over the last six years."
--David Banister, University College London

"This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in
UK transport policy. It debunks, in forensic detail, the myth that
the government has a coherent strategy for transport."
--Christian Wolmar, author of Broke Rails – How
Privatisation Wrecked Britain’s Railways

"This book is valuable not only to transport geographers and the
growing literature on sustainable transport, but to anyone
interested in how government promises fail to come to fruition."
(The Geographical Journal)

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